Climate change, responsibility and liability / edited by Eva Schulev-Steindl, [and six others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schulev-Steindl, Eva, editor.

Series:

Climate Change Law and Governance

Climate Change Law and Governance ; v.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (525 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baden-Baden, Germany : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, [2022]

Summary:

The recent past has seen a rise in litigation seeking to hold specific private and public actors liable for their contribution to and impacts of climate change, with a relatively low success rate. This highlights the need for further research into the reasonable and just distribution of responsibility for mitigation and adaptation. This book unites renowned researchers from various disciplines to explore the challenges and opportunities of assigning responsibility and liability for climate change to specific actors. Thereby, the importance of interdisciplinary scientific dialogue on climate change is strengthened, and a new generation of jurists is to be provided with novel arguments for protecting our climate system.

Contents:

Cover

Part I: Foundational basis for climate responsibility and liability: Attribution science, economics and philosophical perspectives

Climate change, its impacts, and attribution of causes: Current status and challenges

Climate change and pandemics: Feasibility constraints on mitigation and adaptation

The cost of carbon: Economic approaches to damage evaluation

Foreseeability of economic damages related to inadequate climate mitigation and adaptation

Part II: Legal basis for climate change responsibility and liability

A. International aspects

Climate change responsibility and liability in international law

From blabla to concrete obligations: The Oslo Principles and the Principles on Climate Obligations of Enterprises

China's climate change law: History, current situation, and key issues

A rights-basis for climate compensatory claims in Kenya

South Africa: Climate change, responsibility and liability - the legal system, public and private law considerations

B. European Union, Germany and Austria

Climate change litigation in Germany and Austria - an overview

State responsibility for climate change under EU and German law

Oslo Principles in EU and Austrian climate change law

The first Austrian climate lawsuit

C. Private law and climate litigation

Climate change and tort law

Legal standing in climate-related lawsuits

Climate change litigation and the private sector - assessing the liability risk for multinational corporations and the way forward for strategic litigation

Part III: Climate change litigation and enforcement: Crosscutting issues

Climate change, public interest litigation and the development of renewable energy law in China - based on the analysis of Friends of Nature v Ningxia Grid Company

Fostering responsibility through compliance mechanisms.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Schulev-Steindl, Eva Climate Change, Responsibility and Liability

ISBN:

3-7489-3099-2